The Cradle Towers of Zhengzhou comprise of five mixed residential, office and hotel towers that swoop out of podium housing retail and leisure. Hollowed out to form a ring, the podium forms a threshold between the city and a soft, sheltered landscape within.

the city is square and the sky is round, five towers reach for the sky,swooping as song shan mountain-scape,encircling at its base a public garden
cradling, a modern community built on an ancient soul

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郑州摇篮五塔以雄伟的嵩山例证了郑州 的 起源和预示 着它的未来智慧中原绿城的绿建筑

A family of five towers of varying heights swoop out of the urban block to from a mountainscape. Vertical courtyards bring daylight into the deep plan at the base of the towers and establish vertical gardens up their inside faces. A fluid landscape spills out of the cradle and under the lifted podium ring, connecting the vast inner courtyard to the wider city sprawling beyond. At the peak of each tower a roof-top glass house simultaneously screens the mechanical plant floors and greens the skyline.